The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1887-07-01


eLoODv-SHlRT ROT.
4 Fair Criticism o. John sherman's
Springfield speech
The statesman who. few months
ago. asked the business men Of Cincin.
natl to formulate an economical and
financial policy for the politicians. on
the ground that the latter were up .
stump and were incapable Of extricat-
ing the Government from the difficulties
surrounding it. found words and time
at Springfield. in this State. to discuss
all the ancient history that he Is famil-
lar with. and to air IS much Of his con-
temptible partisanship as the occasion
would admit OF. Unable to suggest
remedy for any evil Of to-day. the poll
tician who presumes on the ignorance
and prejudice Of his hearers goes back
over the years and comes out strong
on questions long since settled forever.
No man in America is more formidable
in this role than John Sherman. No
man in America is weaker, more use
less and more dumb IN the presence Of
the prodigious questions now confront
ing the Nation. every one Of them i'm.
portant in its way. than John Sher-
man.
Senator Sherman presumes to assers
that there is something in the ''tenden-
cies" of one party which makes it pref
cradle to another. and, to sum up his
evidence on this momentous point, he
declares that in the first place Cleve-
| land was elected by fraud. and has
characterized his Administration BY
appointing rebels to Office and treating
| the Union veteran with ignominy. In
| this il to be seen the same old assump.
ton Of personal. moral patriotic and
intellectual superiority by one party
over another without . shadow Of
basis, and. in fact, contradicted BY
every event OF Importance in the last
century. For every Republican patriot
wise man. good man. handsome man.
wcll-dressed man or clean man,
Democrat OF equal standing may be
produced. For every ''rebel" in place
under Cleveland . "rebel" can be
found who was in place under the Re-
publicana For every 'Union soldier"
smitten BY Cleveland one can be found
who was smitten by : Republican.
These things are conceded everywhere
in life save in the political stump or in
the columns Of the editorial swash-
buckler.
Il is discouraging beyond measure
to see . man who has long been con.
spicuous in public life and who aspires
to high things pitching his canvass
for the Presidency on 90 low and
wretched plane The time has come
for something better. The people seem
70 be demanding something better.
They have something immeasurably
better At Washington already. Il the
John Shermans can not rise to the
level reached by the present clean and
progressive Administration snd take
issue with IL mot On questions with
which Il has and eau have nothing "a
do, but upon the issues in the solution
Of which It Is now engaged they viii
cut sorry figure next year. Tho r.
dictionary il never popular In frse
country.
| In the coming Presidential election
the Republican candidates will not b
asked whether they viii fight thu
Southern Confederacy or not They
win not b questioned - to their stand
ing on the Missouri Compromise Or o.
the Kansas and Nebraska question
They will not be catechixed with ref
erence to the reconstruction Of tn
States lately in rebellion. lt vii
make no difference whether they fought
a Union soldiers or stayed q home
q John Sherman did. What thcl
will have to meet will b the record Q
an honest painstaking. patriotic Dem
ocrNtic Administration. They may pro
fer something else. but that will be tn
thing which will confront them.-ChS
edgo Herald.